Rachel Bernhard

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DCPS promised them green cards. Now, these international teachers have nowhere to turn. More than 200 teachers may soon have to leave the country because of what they say are broken promises from the city's school system.

Some 200 teachers who took jobs with DCPS under the expectation that the school system would sponsor a green card are now facing uncertain futures.

Even after the D.C. Council set aside additional funds for the program, DCPS says it won’t spend the money, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

New research shows that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.

We must reject the division. Reject the hatred. And build a coalition of progressive voices that represent all.
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Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children In the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no associ...

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol

2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.

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I have many thoughts about Charlie Kirk—and perhaps even more about the white elites, including some on the left, who insist we can’t hold multiple realities at once. We can. And we must.

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Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes Katie Burns is helping reveal the immune system’s role in the long-neglected disease

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing.

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I am grateful for all the kind notes you've sent. I hope the resulting work will speak to you and do justice to your ideas. Above all, thank you for sharing your ideas. Without the vulnerability of communication--of putting ourselves out there--humanity, and I, would have very few ideas indeed. /end

To me, that signals that this project--this idea--has captured something important from what I've read and heard. Your ideas are here. They may be as small as a footnote you tucked into a longer manuscript, or as large as a life's work; as small as a kitchen conversation; but they are here. /7

...but that they are thinking about symbols as simplifiers, that they are thinking about how we quantify complexity, that they are thinking about how social media urges us to simplify, they are thinking about how complex the world feels these days. /6

What brings me joy in this project already is that when I talk to people about the role of simplicity and complexity in politics, they tell me they are working on it too. Not the exact thing, of course... /5

When I say it is your idea, I mean it is because I discuss widely. I talk to cab drivers and lords and homemakers and academics. These people are my intellectual community. Many of them see the world entirely differently than I do. Like many academics, I talk too much, but I do also listen. /4

When I say it is your idea, I mean it is because I read widely. I read poetry and physics articles and history and science fiction and investigative journalism and everything in between. If you are seeing this, it's likely I have read something by you: a tweet, an article, perhaps even a book. /3

One does not, in my experience, come to good ideas by oneself. At least, they have never come that way for me. Perhaps for Mozart or Austen they did. For me they come through reading, and through discussion. /2

I've been thinking about what to say about this news. It is a strange and humbling thing to learn you've received a grant like this. I want to say this: that this is your idea. 🧵

Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics Welcome to Cambridge Core

📢 Meet the Editors: Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
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Join the editors for an informal gathering to learn about the series & share your research on gender and politics
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I’ve wondered this too. Doesn’t seem likely I’m getting $3k a paper or whatever number is being bandied about now, alas! 😂

The biggest analytical weakness of Americans in trying to understand the current moment is that their powers of analogy begin and end with US history. The idea that something qualitatively different might be arising simply doesn’t occur to them.

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📚 📣 Are you in the Stockholm area on September 22nd? Come discuss new research about gender gaps in academia at Stockholm University! Email me to sign up. Program below!

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In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right.

Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements.

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This one - from Gov Bob Ferguson to Pam Bondi- equally worthy of praise.

To repeat: the Trump administration peace deal was always a deal for peace between Russia and the US, not Russia and Ukraine. In it, it seems, the US gets Ukraine's resources, Russia gets Ukraine's land, and Ukraine gets to say thank you.

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